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Wołyń Voivodeship (1921–1939)

Wołyń Voivodeship
Województwo wołyńskie
Voivodeship of Poland

1921–1939

Coat of arms of Wołyń

Coat of arms

Location of Wołyń
Wołyń Voivodeship (red) on the map of Second Polish Republic
Capital Łuck
Government Voivodeship
Voivodes
 •  Mar-Jul 1921 Stanisław Jan Krzakowski
 •  1938-1939 Aleksander Hauke-Nowak
Historical era Interwar period
 •  Established 19 February 1921
 •  Soviet invasion 17 September 1939
Area
 •  1921 30,274 km2(11,689 sq mi)
 •  1939 35,754 km2(13,805 sq mi)
Population
 •  1921 1,437,907 
Density 47.5 /km2  (123 /sq mi)
 •  1931 2,085,600 
Political subdivisions 11 powiats
Today part of Ukraine

Coat of arms of Wołyń

Coat of arms

Wołyń Voivodeship or Volhynian Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo Wołyńskie, Latin: Palatinatus Volhynensis) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939) with an area of 35,754 km², 22 cities, and provincial capital in Łuck. The voivodeship was divided into 11 districts (powiaty). The area comprised part of the historical region of Volhynia. At the end of World War II, at the insistence of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union during the Tehran Conference of 1943, Poland's borders were redrawn by the Allies. The Polish population was forcibly resettled westward; and the Voivodeship territory was incorporated into the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. Since 1991 it has been divided between the Rivne and Volyn Oblasts of sovereign Ukraine.


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